1895 Spanish cruiser Reina Regente sinks in Straits of Gibraltar, over 400 die.
1915 The British declare a blockade of all German ports.
1935 Hermann Goering officially creates the Luftwaffe (German Air Force).
1942 General MacArthur leaves Corregidor (Bataan) for Australia.
1945 1,000 allied bombers harass Essen, 4,662 ton bombs.
1945 Flemish nazi collaborator Maria Huygens sentenced to death.
1958 American B-47 accidentally drops nuclear bomb 15,000 ft on a family home in Mars Bluff, South Carolina; creates crater 75 ft across, bomb without its nuclear capsule.
1997 Ashes of Star Trek creator, Gene Roddenberry are launched into space.
2013 Falkland Islands’ sovereignty referendum: 99.8% choose to remain an Overseas Territory of the United Kingdom.
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